Saint Memnon
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Egyptian hegumen
Saint Memnon the Wonderworker was alive during the second century A.D.[1][2] He was a hegumen of an Egyptian monastery. His feast day is April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
In the Egyptian desert he practised religious asceticism.[3]
He is said to have performed a number of miracles. Some of his miracles include causing a spring to gush forth, destroying a plague of locusts, curing illnesses and saving boats from destruction.[2][4]
References
- ↑ period in which alive Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 20130214
- 1 2 "Venerable Memnon the Wonderworker". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ↑ translated by le bien Fr. S. Janos retrieved 13.10.11
- ↑ "Serbian Orthodox Church". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
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